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• A Slow Fire Burning

  Hawkins, Paula

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  Gripping mystery about a young man who is found murdered on a houseboat and three women who all have ties to him and different possible motives. Twisty.

• Never

  Follett, Ken

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  Sahara Desert, two intelligence agents are on the trail of a group of drug smuggling terrorists. Danger, love, everything you love about Ken Follett novels.

• Fiona and Jane

  Stories

  Ho, Jean Chen

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  Debut of ten stories. An intimate portrait of a friendship between two young women.

• The Lincoln Highway

  Towles, Amor

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  Richly written characters and a plot that will not disappoint. Towles shows his staying power in this third novel.

• The Book of Form and Emptiness

  Ozeki, Ruth, 1956-

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  After the death of his musician father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. He finds refuge from them in the public library.

• Silverview

  Le Carré, John, 1931-2020

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  His last novel before his death. Thrilling and moving.

• Drunk Flies and Stoned Dolphins

  a Trip Through the World of Animal Intoxication

  Pagán, Oné R.

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  Fascinating science combined with humor about animals and insects recreational drug use in nature.

• Every Day the River Changes

  Four Weeks Down the Magdalena

  Salama, Jordan

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  Travelogue about the river journey and about how a country recovers from conflict. Including traveling librarian whose transports books by donkey, invasive hippos not native to Columbia, and biologists.

• The Last Chance Library

  Sampson, Freya

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  June, a librarian in a small English village joins forces with locals to keep the library open.

• Ordinary Heroes

  a Memoir of 9/11

  Pfeifer, Joseph, 1956-

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  Intimate account of what Chief Pfeifer witnessed at Ground Zero.

• Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes

  Essays

  Robinson, Phoebe

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  Hilarious and heartfelt essays.

• Capote's Women

  a True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for An Era

  Leamer, Laurence

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  Capote decides to write the true lives of all his rich friends for Esquire. "The blowback incinerated his relationships and banished him from their high-society world," forever. -- Laurence Leamer

• The Searcher

  French, Tana

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  Now in paperback, book clubs might enjoy the different pacing in this mystery about an American who settles near a village and befriends a teenager looking for a lost brother.

• The New Negro Aesthetic

  Selected Writings

  Locke, Alain, 1885-1954

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  Alain Locke (1885-1954) wanted to find a new language and way for Black people to express themselves. This is a collection of essays his biographer collected.

• A Nation of Women

  An Early Feminist Speaks Out

  Capetillo, Luisa, 1879-1922

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  A collection of groundbreaking feminist writings of Puerto Rican author Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922).

• Shit Cassandra Saw

  Stories

  Kirby, Gwen E.

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  A collection of stories where Kirby experiments with irreverent narrators, and strong characters like witches refusing to be burned and women who tell her "We have always been this way. You just had to know where to look."

• Around the World in 80 Books

  a Literary Journey

  Damrosch, David

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  A literary cartography of world literature today.

• White on White

  Savas, Aysegül,

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  A student finds out there is a narrow space between happiness, resentment, vulnerability and empathy.

• I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness

  Watkins, Claire Vaye

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  Autobiographical Fiction. Deep in the Nevada Desert where she grew up, Claire meets her ghosts at every turn. She mines her own past including her father's role in the Manson family and her own depression for this story.

• Something to Hide

  George, Elizabeth, 1949-

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  Much awaited sequel to the Inspector Lynley and Sgt. Barbara Havers mysteries.